Handsaw.



No. 627,6!5. Patented June 27, I899. E. J. HICKS.

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(Application filed Jan. 23, 1899.)

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UNITED- STATES PATENT FFICE.

EDGAR J. HICKS, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ROBERT E.POINDEXTER, OF SAME PLACE.

HAN D S AW.

SPECIFICATION forming part 01' Letters Patent NO. 627,615, dated June27, 1899. Application filed January 23, 1899. Serial No. 703,155. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR J. I-IIOKS,a citizen of the United States,residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvemen ts in Handsaws, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention is an improvement on the handsaw patented to me on the 3dday of J an u ary, 1899; and the object of this invention is to providemeans whereby the handle may be adjusted laterally with relation to thesawblade, permitting it to'be placed in alinement with the blade or toone side of it, as the requirements of the work may demand.

I accomplish the object of the invention by the mechanism illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view in side elevationof my improved saw; Fig. 2, a plan view of same, showing the handle infull lines in a plane to the left of the blade and in dotted lines inalinement with the blade. Fig. 3 is a detail in perspective of the twoplates between which the saw-blade is clamped and to which the handle isfastened, and Fig. 4isapers'pective view of the handle.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the severalviews of the drawings.

A represents the saw-blade of usual construction, except that theheelthat portion which is toothed and is under or next to the handle-iscarried back under the handle to lengthenthecnttingedge.Thisheelportion, which is carried back in my saw, is shown at a.

O and O are a pair of plates between which the saw-blade is placed andsecured by bolts or screws 0, which are projected through suitable holesin the two plates and in the sawblade. The plates 0 and 0 have thelaterally-projected ears 0 c and c 0 which may be at right angles to theplates from which they spring, but will preferably be inclined to therear to throw the handle-farther back of the blade as it is movedoutwardly, or rather laterally. The ears from the two plates willoverlap each other in pairs 0 c and each ear will be slottedlongitudinallythat is, from its outer end in toward the plate. Theseslots are shown at 0 and the slots of each pair register.

D is the handle, here shown as a metal one,

I the screws the handle may be moved laterally of the saw-blade anywherewithin the compass of the slots 0 It may be moved to the outer ends ofthe slots, as shown in Fig. 2, or

it may be moved into alinement with the sawblade, as shown in dottedlines in Fig. 2. In the latter case the ears serve an additionalfunction of guards to protect the knuckles of the sawyers hand.For.left-handed persons the handle will be set off on the side oppositethat shown in the drawings.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and wishto secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. As a new article of manufacture, a handsaw having a removable handlein a plane coincident with or parallel to the plane of the blade andadjustable transversely to the length of the blade into planes alwaysparallel with the saw-blade, substantially as described and specified.

2. The combination, with a handsaw-blade and a handle adjustabletransversely to the length of the blade, of a connecting piece or piecesby which the blade and handle are joined together, said connecting pieceor pieces having laterally-projected ears slotted as shown and describedto which the handle is removably and adj ustably secured by screws orbolts, substantially as specified.

3. In a handsaw, the combination with a handle adjustable. transverselyto the plane of the length of the blade, of a blade having EDGAR J.HICKS. [n s.]

Witnesses:

JOSEPH A. MINTURN, R. E. POINDEXTER.

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